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TITLE: PAINTING - Sick Bacchus - BAROQUE PERIOD IN ITALY

DESCRIPTION: by CARAVAGGIO. SELF-PORTRAIT #1 (see #29). Influential painter having important effect on artists in Europe. Scandalous person = drunkard, murderer. Invented TENEBRISM = NIGHT PAINTING or dark paintings. Later artists will actually call it "Caravesque". Painted in Flemish manner: 1) realistic details 2) love for still life.